What happened to the Community Reps and Moderators on here?

[SassyAssassin]

The Moderators are GaiusDrakon all along...

You’re kidding but I actually started to think this as well lol

[Axxion]

we had a mod a one point of time but they step down i think back stormblood ( someone correct me if im wrong).

if we had one it would a bit better, like way better i do het tired of seeing the same person from 4 chan posting in here Like someone mentioned before they have moved to social media. the problem is even with xiv they need to find away to get the feed back from the nsfw content

[TheGrimace]

SE got confused. They're supposed to ban all add-ons, and "mods" are another name for add-ons, and... Well,

[UltraPrimarch]

I just realized what it is: SE is testing out AI moderators...

[Boblawblah]

They're there, because anything over the top offensive, slurs, porn, etc will get removed very quickly, but in terms of trolling, etc, nothing. Seems more like an automated system with maybe a single person checking in once every couple of weeks just for housekeeping, not actual moderation of behaviour.

[kaynide]

Would like to add:

It would be nice if, when I block someone, it simply doesn’t show any posts they made. Including new threads entirely and/or their bumps. Everyone having that alone would alleviate a lot of troll-baiting or bad-faith posts.

[Kazhar]

They're there, because anything over the top offensive, slurs, porn, etc will get removed very quickly, but in terms of trolling, etc, nothing. Seems more like an automated system with maybe a single person checking in once every couple of weeks just for housekeeping, not actual moderation of behaviour.

They probably have to follow a very strict policy from Square Enix. If a troll doesn't step outside the boundary defined by the ToS, there's absolutely nothing they can do.
It's possible the mods are as frustrated about this situation as the playerbase.

[Ivtrix]

I just realized what it is: SE is testing out AI moderators...

big if true

[Avatre]

The Moderators are GaiusDrakon all along...

You’re kidding but I actually started to think this as well lol

Honestly, it's the most plausible reason why they almost never get banned(and if they do there is just another 5k bot accounts to use...)

That would be a restrictively short timeframe for any real long-standing discussion.

A functioning moderator would have the power to manually lock threads that are repeatedly bumped for drama-garnering purposes, which would solve a great deal of the cyclical bumping here, as it's always a pattern of the same threads bumped en masse by the same pattern of posters.

I agree the 2 weeks is too short a time frame for locking, but things that haven't been interacted with for over a year should probably be locked, maybe two years at the most, due to changes in the game and potentially outdated information causing mass confusion.

[Zsavooz]

probably costs too much money to hire more reps. Money is getting tighter and tighter if you haven't noticed.